Footwear heel stabilizer construction

Abstract

A footwear heel stabilizing construction comprising an upper portion, a midsole fitted to said upper and having a heel cushion portion in said midsole, said heel cushion embraced in a frame in which the frame has a series of cushion retaining finger elements surrounding said cushion to retain said cushion in a configuration presented to the bottom of said footwear upper portion, and an outsole secured to said midsole to provide a walking surface for the footwear.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. In footwear heel stabilizing construction to maintain the heel shape, the heel construction comprising: a) a cushion having upper and lower surfaces and lateral and medial sides, said cushion having indentations in said lateral and medial sides and in said upper surface, and said cushion being substantially in all areas between said sides;   b) a heel cushion shape stabilizing frame positioned against said cushion lower surface and having preshaped fingers fitted in said indentations in each of said sides and said finger extending into said cushion indentations in said upper surface; and   c) adhesive material retaining said preshaped fingers wrapped into said indentations in said lateral and medial sides and into said upper surface of said cushion, wherein said fingers maintain the shape of said cushion.   
     
     
       2. The heel construction set forth in claim 1 wherein said indentations shaped in said cushion upper surface have enlarged ends and said preshaped fingers projecting over said cushion upper surface have enlarged ends seated in said enlarged ends of said indentations, whereby said enlarged finger ends and said enlarged indentations in said upper surface exert a shape holding force on said cushion.